Desktop device icons do not show at all

[Justin Denick]

You must have something running in the background that will monitor for 
theses devices.

As I understand it, dbus will monitor changes in your userspace and tell the 
kernel when something happens. Like you plugging in your jump-drive or a 
printer. From there udev will name/type the device according to predefined 
rules in /etc. I believe from there hotplug will recognize the device 
(placed appropriately by udev in /dev) as whatever it is and load the 
appropriate modules. It is at this point the HAL daemon will tell kde to 
plop a pretty little icon on your desktop.

I may be off on a few points here so if anybody has a better, more accurate 
description, please let us know.


On 9/20/05, mikeumo at sbcglobal.net <mikeumo at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello --
> 
> I checked all the icons I like in "Configure desktop > etc.", including 
> the
> unmounted devices. Yet there are no icons on my desktop (after kde 
> restart).
> 
> Can someone help me?
> 
> mike.
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